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Plastic Sheeting: A guide to the specification and use of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief

13/07/2007

3 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This booklet is aimed to help humanitarian aid workers make more informed decisions on the use of plastic sheeting in emergencies. The target audience includes programme managers, field based engineers and technical staff, logisticians and others involved in providing emergency shelter and sanitation services to disaster and conflicted families.

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Test Your Organisation with the 12 Boxes Framework: A facilitators’ guide to support NGOs in self-assessing their response to HIV and AIDS in their workplace and in their work using a gender perspective

01/01/2007

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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This guide is written for development NGOs that are concerned about the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and how they can improve their response to it. Based on Oxfam Novib’s experiences of gender mainstreaming the guide is aimed at NGO managers looking to do a self-assessment. Two lessons learned were crucial and form the basis for […]

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Emergency Simulations: Administrator’s guide

01/01/2007

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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By simulating a disaster humanitarian staff can practice responding to an emergency and collaborating with diverse colleagues in an intense emergency context. The Emergency Capacity Building Project produced this guide to coordinating both multi-and single-agency simulations, which includes a methodology that enables staff to test (self-assess) their performance. This is a simple, adaptable simulation package enabling field teams to test […]

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Water Pumping Manual

09/09/2006

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The equipment is designed to be used with any or all of the following Oxfam water equipment: Water Pumping equipment, Water Storage equipment, […]

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Working with the Media on Gender and Education: A guide for training and planning

11/07/2006

2 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This guide has been developed following two ‘Gender, Education and the Media’ workshops which were held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2005 and in Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 2006. It brings together learning from both workshops in order to help organisations working on gender and education develop and implement media-advocacy strategies for gender equitable education. […]

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12 Steps to Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS at the Workplace: Experiences from Tanzania

01/06/2006

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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The aim of this booklet is to share with you our experiences, best practice and lessons Oxfam have learned around successfully making HIV and AIDS awareness and training a core part of the culture of all workplaces. Oxfam hopes that reading this booklet will motivate you to initiate and sustain HIV and AIDS interventions in […]

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Water Storage Manual

26/04/2006

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. Storage tanks are required for collection of water from springs or water produced from continuous flow water treatment systems, e.g. from upflow clarifiers […]

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Water Treatment Guidelines For Use in Emergencies

25/04/2006

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The object of water treatment is to provide potable water, i.e. pathogen free and chemically safe, which is low in physical impurities and […]

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Water Filtration Manual

25/04/2006

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The equipment is designed to be used with any or all of the following Oxfam water equipment: Water Storage equipment, Water Coagulation and […]

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Malaria Control Manual

25/04/2006

1 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is meant for all Oxfam staff who may be involved in initiating a malaria control project in humanitarian situations specifically although much of the background information will be useful for longer term programmes. Knowledge of malaria control is important for Public Health Promoters, Water and Sanitation Engineers and Project Co-ordinators and Managers in […]

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Plastic Sheeting: A guide to the specification and use of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief

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Test Your Organisation with the 12 Boxes Framework: A facilitators’ guide to support NGOs in self-assessing their response to HIV and AIDS in their workplace and in their work using a gender perspective

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Emergency Simulations: Administrator’s guide

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Water Pumping Manual

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Working with the Media on Gender and Education: A guide for training and planning

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12 Steps to Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS at the Workplace: Experiences from Tanzania

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Water Storage Manual

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Water Treatment Guidelines For Use in Emergencies

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Water Filtration Manual

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Malaria Control Manual

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